More Tilt Shift

The Canon 24mm  TS-E is awesome.  It's a bit different from using a view camera; takes a little getting used to the knobs and controlling the axes (took some brainpower to realize I needed to use the tripod head as a rear standard, not the lens).

Part of the the fun / trouble, is choosing between getting the lines vertical, or using the low depth of field (f/3.5) and miniaturizing things.  For the image with the statue, I took the image "out-of-whack," then corrected the lines in photoshop to try and achieve both effects.

Another cool use is to merge photos.  The image below of the door is actually three separate exposures - I simply shifted the lens, left, center, right.  In photoshop, I chose File > Automate > Photomerge - then followed the dialog box.  There's an article on this in the July/August Picture Magazine